Devastation 2010 SSF4 Results

Devastation 2010 concluded over the weekend, and while there were many other games, the SSF4 tourney was notable in that the Top 8 finalists were composed mostly of characters that normally do not see top 8 finishes in majors. 

We had Marn's Dudley win it all, beating Valle's Ryu! And there were some strong finishes by Juicebox Abel, Combofiend's Guy, Buktooth's Ibuki, floE's Juri and NinjaCW's Makoto! Plus Filipino Champ's Dhalsim and Mike Ross's Honda! Definitely not the usual top 8 roster. Anyway, for guys like me that like seeing non-top tier characters do well, this weekend was quite a breath of fresh air. 

The game is only a few months old at this point, and I know that one tournament does not a standard make, but I hope that this is a harbinger of things to come at EVO, you never know, Yeb beasted in vanilla with Gen, and we've seen Inthul's Fei Long do well in Super. 

Is this the year a Dan player wins EVO? Watch out! 

SFIV Powerplay Beatdown Tourney RESULTS!

Okay, I have the results from Saturday's Memphis tourney!

1st-Lil Majin - Gief
2nd-Cylus - Balrog
3rd-Severin-X - Abel
4th-Joe - Sakura
5th-pJan - Blanka/Honda
5th-Lycan - Ryu/Akuma
7th-eraser224 - Bison
7th-FlyMike - Honda
9th-Shin
9th-Hiryu02 - Abel/Gen
9th-Tza
9th-Ma
13th-Crazybrownman
13th-Squabbler - Akuma/Ryu
13th-Gene
17th-Hampton - Bison
17th-Apollo
17th-Duckie - Sagat
17th-Red Dragon
17th-Tkal
25th-Pwner

My apologies if your sig is misspelled, this is how it was logged in Tio.

Anyway, congrats to the winners, and thanks to everyone who attended. We had a great turnout, much better than expected for a small local tourney like this. I was hoping to get maybe a dozen, and we had over 20 people show up. Hopefully we can all do this again sometime, I think there will be some vids posted later. I hope everyone had a great time. Thanks again, and I hope we all fight again sometime.

For more post-tourney comments, check this thread here.